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IQE (IQE)

IQE plc is one of the leading suppliers of semiconductor wafer products for wireless and optoelectronic components, photovoltaics and silicon based epitaxy. Its customers are supplied with process optimized, cost effective, world-class wafers from any one of its worldwide manufacturing sites. Contract wafer manufacturing is a fundamental business strategy for an ever-increasing number of compound semiconductor device manufacturers. The epitaxy process is one of the most critical and expensive parts of the manufacturing chain and, due to very significant technology developments over the past several years, now requires the highest level of expertise which is most readily available from a trusted specialist supplier such as IQE. Every epiwafer supplied by IQE is manufactured to the customers exact specifications. IQE is highly sensitive to the confidentiality of each customers design specification and has safeguards in place to ensure that customers intellectual property remains proprietary.